jschauma: you didn't mention catdoc,
a command line tool that works like cat, but on doc
files. It's not 100% accurate, but it's close enough for my
purposes. The article was excellent; I'm passing it along
to one of my friends who I'm convincing to use linux. :)

ldunbar: Chill. That was aimed at everyone
who is claiming that $evil_guy_of_the_month is the the very
incarnation of capital-E Evil, aka the antichrist. I never
claimed that their actions weren't small-E evil. I
apologise if you interpreted my comments as saying that the
media has manufactured these people; I meant that the media
has taken a nasty guy, and painted him in such a way that
even 80 year old grandmothers(who still remember hitler)
want to shove a grenade down his throat. That is all.

the US propaganda machine is in full force, I see.
The guy that no one had
heard of two years ago is now the antichrist. Riiiiiiight.
Just like Saddam Hussein was. And Hitler. And the entirety
of north vietnam. Who will it be next year? I nominate
Dubya! He's certainly creating his fair share of senseless
death and destruction. And he's bombing afghanistan too!

One word summary of my life lately: FUCK.
Two word summary of my life lately: FUCK IT.

More Everything hacking. This time it was setting up some
nifty themes. In the process, I installed gimp1.2, which is
a definite improvement(yes, I know they're up above 1.3).
Did some photoediting too; we've got logoes<tangent>hmm,
logos is apparently not like potatoes. Call me
Danforth.</tangent> suitable for each theme. :)

Next up is to try getting the voting nodeball to work.
Probably non-trivial; but it would be worth it.

Also seemed to have some wierdness going on with
mod-perl; but the problems went away when I apt-get removed
perl-5.005. (I
don't know why it was still installed beside 5.6.1. It just
was). Hopefully there was nothing else wierd going on.

ntp kicks ass; I can be sure that my assignment will be
submitted not less than 20 seconds before the deadline.

I also wrote a README for sched; now people will know WTF
it is without reading the code.

played more exult. I really wish that when flying over
the mountains, the things inside the mountain couldn't hurt
you. And it keeps crashing. Lots of fun regardless. :)

Java java java. Rwrote everything; it mostly works now.
Big bug in collision detection though. I need to figure out
how to keep the objects from overlapping; they are counted
as colliding manymany times, thus sending one off at
incredible speeds.

Why must every language have it's own ideas of what
operators should do what? Yes, some are stupid. But Why
should I have to remember that commas are list separators
except in the case where there are two of them in a row?
And what if I have an empty item in my list?

Mostly, what's wrong with having "+" or "." be the cat
operator? + makes sense in that you're getting the sum of
two strings.
</rant inspiredBy=sej>

Stayed up til 3am last night; it's been a while. Maybe I
should start drinking coffee again. Though concentrated
line juice can wake you up in a hurry... I didn't manage to
come up with a [correct] algorithm for one of the questions
even after all that; this morning in my first class I came
up with the answer. At least last night wasn't wasted; I
used a bunch of what I'd already done. Quite elegant in the
end too.